Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN SION (fl. second half of the 16th century), poet, farmer, at one time beadle or crier in the courts, a professional copyist by trade, and one of the most important figures in the literary life of Glamorganshire his reputation to the fact that he was the greatest professional copyist of his time; he was not as prolific a copyist as John Jones (1578? - 1658?) of Gellilyfdy or Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, but his MSS. are far more systematic and he has kept aloof from contemporary literary prejudices. There are thirteen of his MSS. still in existence - seven being collections of cywyddau and awdlau, one of
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Wynford Vaughan Thomas, one of his lifelong friends. Between 1940 and 1945, he felt 'moral obligation' (Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas) to take action against Nazism and served as an officer with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the 'literary' regiment in which Hedd Wyn, Robert Graves, Llywelyn Wyn Griffith, David Jones and Siegfried Sassoon served during the First World War. After joining the army in November 1940, he
LORT family Stackpole, Quaker, Charles Lloyd (II) of Dolobran. On the other hand Roger alone made some show of service in arms for the king. It is believed that Sampson, too, favoured the Restoration; he must have been dead by 1670, for the owner of a seven-hearth house in Manorbier in 1670 was a Thomas Lort (W. Wales Hist. Records, x, 190). Roger Lort was a man who loved his ease, and was fond of composing Latin epigrams
LOUGHER, Sir LEWIS (1871 - 1955), industrialist and politician Born 1 October 1871, second son of Thomas Lougher of Llandaff, Glamorganshire, and Charlotte, daughter of David Lewis, a farmer of Radyr Farm, Radyr, Cardiff. His family was deeply rooted in Glamorganshire; his father came from Wenvoe and his paternal grandfather from Garn-llwyd, Llancarfan. He was educated in Cardiff Secondary School and Cardiff Technical College, and was apprenticed to corn
LOUGHER, ROBERT (d. 1585?), civil lawyer and ecclesiastical administrator Born at Tenby, the youngest son of Thomas Lougher, alderman of the borough. He became a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford (as founder's kin), in 1553, and graduated B.C.L. in 1558 (9 July). In 1561-3 he was presented to three sinecure rectories in Devon and became archdeacon of Totnes (21 February 1562). He attended the Convocation of 1562-3 as prolocutor for the Devon clergy, acquiescing in the
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Welsh composers - especially Daniel Jones, William Mathias and Alun Hoddinot. He also (probably with justification) claimed to have given the first press recognition to outstanding singers such as Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones and Margaret Price. Such advocacy might have been dismissed as the parochialism of a local reporter, but this never applied to Loveland, uprightly Home Counties to the core and
LOWE, WALTER BEZANT (1854 - 1928), antiquary (with Thomas Elias, 1912); Llansannan (1915); and several guidebooks and maps. His health broke down, and in 1926 he moved to Bangor, where he died 7 May 1928.
LOYD, LEWIS (1767 - 1858), banker of David Peter, he entered Manchester Unitarian College where, in his second year, he was appointed assistant tutor in the classics. At about the same time he took charge of the congregation at Lob Lane, near Manchester. On his marriage he was persuaded by his brothers-in-law, Samuel and William Jones, to abandon the ministry and to become a partner in their banking business. This new career of
LYNN-THOMAS, Sir JOHN (1861 - 1939), surgeon Born 10 September 1861 at Cwmgefeile, Llandysul, Cardiganshire, the son of Evan Thomas, farmer. He studied medicine at the London Hospital (M.R.C.S. 1886, F.R.C.S. 1892). His essay on fractures of the skull was awarded the Hutchinson Prize, 1890. He was elected assistant surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, 1895, and promoted surgeon later. He became the first purely consulting surgeon in Wales
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician Born 27 May 1888 at Gwaenysgor, Prestatyn, Flintshire, son of Thomas Macdonald and Ellen (née Hughes), but the family soon moved to Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire, where he was brought up in a Welsh -speaking home. He left S. Luke's Elementary School, Stubshaw Cross, at the age of 13 and worked as a miner until the beginning of World War I, apart from a period as a student at Ruskin College
MACHEN, ARTHUR (1863 - 1947), writer
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller Sherborne School for Girls. She briefly attended a domestic science college (her mother's idea) before gladly taking up her aunt's suggestion to study journalism at the London School of Economics. This aunt was Margaret Haig Thomas, Lady Rhondda whose former husband was Sir Humphrey Mackworth, younger brother of Mackworth's father: he had been best man at her parents' wedding. Mackworth completed a two

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